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“Strong bodies fight, that weak bodies may be nourished.”

Since 1931 the Notre Dame Boxing Team has fought to raise money for Bangladesh. This is the story of transforming that cause into a relationship.

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Winner of over 20 international film festival honors including Best Documentary at the Monaco Film Festival, Strong Bodies Fight captures the unique story of Notre Dame's "Bengal Bouts" boxing tournament, covered annually by ESPN and raising over $100K a year for the Congregation of the Holy Cross in Bangladesh.

Featuring renowned ESPN boxing analyst Teddy Atlas, priceless archive footage, and breathtaking cinematography by John Klein and William Donaruma, Strong Bodies Fight delves into the many dimensions of both the sweet science as well as what it means to fight for something bigger than yourself.

Cinematography by

With support from

Mark R. Weber

Mark R. Weber

“Suddenly the motto we had taken so much pride in caused us to sink in our seats.”

We tend to turn "the poor" in the objects of our charity. Producer Mark R. Weber shares his first awakening to this in Bangladesh.

Producer Mark R. Weber builds on his work with Strong Bodies Fight in his role as the co-producer of the new film Poverty, Inc. Here he shares his commitment to discomfort as a necessary function of growth at the Jubilee Professional conference in Pittsburgh, 2016. Poverty, Inc. is a critically acclaimed documentary that has earned over 50 international film festival honors and the $100,000 Templeton Freedom Award. It has been endorsed across the political spectrum, from Michael Moore to Russ Roberts, playing in over 100 universities including Harvard, MIT, NYU, Cornell, Stanford, Yale, and Northwestern. Learn more at www.povertyinc.org, follow on Facebook, tweet at @PovertyINC #PovertyINC@markrweber. Video courtesy of www.ccojubilee.org and www.plf.org.

Scenes from the Film

Scenes from the Film

“It is not I, but we in this world.” — Shankar Rozario

Scenes from the film

In this scene from Strong Bodies Fight, we explore education as the lifeblood of sustainable development. Featuring an interview with Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee (BRAC).

In this scene from the film Strong Bodies Fight, the Notre Dame boxers hand over the gloves to the Bangladeshi children. Today, as part of Notre Dame's International Summer Service Learning Program (ISSLP), four student boxers spend eight weeks in Bangladesh each summer.